Game Thread: FIBA 2010 Preliminary Round - Game 5 - Team USA vs Tunisia
by IQofaWarrior on Sep 1, 2010 11:10 PM PDT
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Sloppy Joes are tasty. Sloppy offense causes headaches and nausea.
There was very little doubt that the USA would win the last game against Iran. These last 2 opponents are just no match for USA's speed and athleticism. So it came as no surprise that USA beat Iran by 37 points with a final score of 88-51. What was a surprise was the continued sloppiness, lack of focus, and poor execution of Team USA. At first, I thought it was because USA was "holding back" and not showing off all of their tricks in the Preliminary Round. But when I thought about it, "holding back" is not an excuse for the lack of sharpness in their execution.
This morning, Team USA faces Tunisia, who are winless in this round and are already disqualified from the next round and have nothing to play for. Team USA has already clinched the #1 spot for Group B, so they also have nothing to play for, except for the bragging rights of a perfect 5-0 record. What I WANT to see is Team USA get sharper, execute better, and bulldoze Tunisia for all 40 minutes of the game. What I EXPECT, however, is more lackadaisical play, more head scratching turnovers, and lack of "taking care of business" attitude. And I expect this game will make you regret getting up early to make the 6:30am PDT start time.
Familiar names on Tunisia: none.
Team USA will face Group A's 4th place spot on Monday. I assume the game will be on espn3.com, but I don't know what live time/channel and replay time/channel it will be.
Update 1: Group A's 4th place is Angola.
Update 2: I found the live and replay info for the Angola game.
Tournament lineup:
| Day | Date | Opponent | Live PDT | Live Chan | Replay PDT | Replay Chan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu | Sep 02 | Tunisia | 6:30am | ESPN2, espn3.com | 9:30pm | ESPN2 |
| Mon | Sep 06 | Angola | 8:00am | ESPN2, espn3.com | 8:00pm | ESPN2 |
Random thought to fill space after the jump: I like these HTML tables. I'll have to use them more during the regular season.
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I think a lot of what we're seeing.....
…is just a result of putting a group of guys together who don’t know how to play with each other. One month of training camp isn’t enough to develop the necessary trust and cohesiveness to be a smooth running machine. Hopefully they can pull it together by the second round.
Yeah
For some reason I’m thinking that it’s because all of the players on Team USA are naturally boring people. When you looked at the We Believe team, a lot of the players had big personalities which made it fun for them to play together, and the chemistry ended up spreading around the team like wildfire. With Team USA, it’s like they’re all robots.
Losing is a helluva drug. It makes fans crazy, and they end up saying ridiculous things. It causes them to form scape goats on the team just so they have someone to blame when it really isn't that player's fault.
by Precise Films Productions on Sep 2, 2010 3:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Fran is so annoying.
He has such negative tone in his voice. Every time he talks it sounds like he’s getting ready to scold someone. The guy hates alley-oops with a passion, too. I understand why he’d get mad about low percentage shots, but he always has to say something bad after every alley-oop attempt and with that voice of his it’s unbearable.
I remember Stephen Curry attempted a behind the back pass and Fran got all butthurt and said, “SEE THIS IS WHEN I TAKE HIM [Curry] OUT OF THE GAME. YOU CAN TELL RIGHT NOW THAT I’M NOT HAPPY”.
Losing is a helluva drug. It makes fans crazy, and they end up saying ridiculous things. It causes them to form scape goats on the team just so they have someone to blame when it really isn't that player's fault.
by Precise Films Productions on Sep 2, 2010 3:09 AM PDT reply actions
Nevermind
Just finished watching the 2nd half of the USA/Iran game and he was actually laughing most of the time.
Losing is a helluva drug. It makes fans crazy, and they end up saying ridiculous things. It causes them to form scape goats on the team just so they have someone to blame when it really isn't that player's fault.
by Precise Films Productions on Sep 2, 2010 3:59 AM PDT up reply actions
The shooting of USA is cold
but they haven’t been that sloppy otherwise
Good ball movement there
just can’t hit the shot
TUN 8 USA 13 1st 2:30
It’s already like 80 degrees in san jose…
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
thanks for holding down the fort IQ!
How’s the team looking so far? More of the same?
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
except for the cold shooting
they look like they are trying to move the ball more than before. Once in a while, they are still playing 1 on 1, but not quite as glaring as yesterday
NOW team USA's offense looks a bit stagnant
not moving around like Tunisia is
Tunisia's offense just can't hit shots reliably
they’re moving around a lot otherwis
That's about what i'd expect
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
TUN 19 USA 13 START OF 2ND
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
CURRY IN!
Misses a jumper, but US still gets points
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
nice out of bounds play
curry sneaking under the basket
Curry boarding over 3 big guys and the putback!
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
yeah, hate to use the excuse but,
it must be the ball!
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
Curry missing 3 and commentator talking s**t again
“There weren’t any passes and he goes and shoots it. What we have here is basically a pick up game.” Or something like that…
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
Yeah, I heard that
I wasn’t paying attention 100% to what he said, but I think that wasn’t specific at Curry.
TUN 21 USA 30 2ND 5:00
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
I wish I hadn't used that pic of the sloppy joe
i’m hungry now
lol
I know, I was thinking the same thing. Coffee in the pot, but just ran out of jalapeno cheese bagels : (
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
Eric Gordon with a 3
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
wow! TUN 31 USA 35 2nd 1:30
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
so curry's back out
i wish the announcers would be more detailed about the subbing
Yeah, they aren't too clear
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
Think..
Kevin Love should be starting. Wish we had + -. I’m sure K Love’s must be good.
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
If westbrook missed that wide open fast break dunk
send him back home
Halftime
ESPN box score so far
http://espn.go.com/extra/fiba/boxscore/_/id/300904917/refresh/30
Ahh nice,
Curry’s 0-3 for three must not put him in Coach K’s good graces
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
possibly
Nellie wouldn’t mind all that much as long as you execute everything on the floor correctly
must also be a big difference
going from a team where you can shoot in volume to get your shot straight without having the pressure of scoring so efficiently
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
TUN 33 USA 39 BEGIN OF 3RD
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
oooo D got cut up by the interior passing
on the bright side Durant with a 3!
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
USA team rebounding = lacking
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
TUN 39 USA 45 3RD 7:30
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
I definitely wouldn't mind..
if Tunesia won today. This game doesn’t mean anything to the USA players, and i’m sure the Tunisians would get so much more out of the win. They seem like good people, and they actually look to be enjoying themselves.
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
PLUS
a loss to Tunisia would set our team straight..
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
yeah, i noticed that last game too
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
Bogut isn't playing right?
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
It'd be nice if all nations had their BEST players out there.
Seems like everyone has their “second team” going..
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
yeah, but so do we
so it sort of evens out that way
Bogut is still injured
Isn’t he?
"It really is a choice of whatever rotten fruit you fancy least." (Kelly Dwyer about NBA Franchise owner)
This should be Germany (*sad sigh*)
Australia should put up a good fight against Team USA, They have good, bulky Bigs and a capable PG in Mills. Angola should be shredded if they make it past the Aussies.
"It really is a choice of whatever rotten fruit you fancy least." (Kelly Dwyer about NBA Franchise owner)
Sorry German..No Dirk, no wins
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
Oh, i see what you mean
Germany has been knocked out already
TUN 42 USA 55 3RD 2:30
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
Ah, Curry's in
so i need to start paying attention to the game
Commentator not liking Curry again
This time for making an extra pass when he shouldn’t have.
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
some sort of treatment, lol
maybe he snubbed them pre-game or something?
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
heh
he didn’t give them an autograph, haha
Australia up 14 against Angola halfway through their 3rd qtr
Looks like Angola is our likely opponent
Nice shot
Compare his three-point shooting with Westbrook or Rose. I really love the way he treats the ball.
"It really is a choice of whatever rotten fruit you fancy least." (Kelly Dwyer about NBA Franchise owner)
offtopic:
that’s weird how the weather predicts that San Jose will hit 96F, but Sunnyvale will hit 89F. They’re not that far apart
yeah, where the hell are they measuring these?
I used to work on the Santa Clara/Sunnyvale border and it did seem to be a little cooler that my home though? weird
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
Gordon on fire
8 points to start the quarter
"It really is a choice of whatever rotten fruit you fancy least." (Kelly Dwyer about NBA Franchise owner)
Westbrook throws it down!
Got some good air
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
Curry hits again!
"It really is a choice of whatever rotten fruit you fancy least." (Kelly Dwyer about NBA Franchise owner)
"and the brights get lighter"
oops, slip of the tongue by the announcer
Curry blocked
Nasty!
"It really is a choice of whatever rotten fruit you fancy least." (Kelly Dwyer about NBA Franchise owner)
yep
reading up about tunisia:
pop: 10.4 mil
largest city: Tunis
currency: tunisian dinar
censorship: high
main export: not basketball players
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
TUN 50 USA 78 4th 6:02
who cares
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
Granger's shooting is plain ugly
At least he did no airball it like Igoudala…
"It really is a choice of whatever rotten fruit you fancy least." (Kelly Dwyer about NBA Franchise owner)
Curry TO
Not his tournament so far…
"It really is a choice of whatever rotten fruit you fancy least." (Kelly Dwyer about NBA Franchise owner)
hahahahahahahahaha
Announcer: For a guy who goes to Davidson with an IQ of 1500, he needs to put that behind-the-back play in his pocket. Save it for the Warriors.
yup,
definitely snubbed pre-game! Fran had his Curry jersey on and asked him to sign it only to hear Curry say “I don’t sign autographs” “Shut your face, Fran”
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
But I understand his frustration
If you’re in the NBA playoffs, you do not risk that kind of play either. You don’t want to lose your mental focus and degenerate into playing for flash instead of playing for the quality play.
Seriously though,
it was not a smart play for Curry to try the behind the back flashy and tricky pass in this tournament
...and I am out
Just wanted to see my favorite Warrior. Hope he doesn’t fall into a mental hole after the WC. Nellie to the rescue!
"It really is a choice of whatever rotten fruit you fancy least." (Kelly Dwyer about NBA Franchise owner)
TUN 55 USA 85 4TH 2:20
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
TUN 57 USA 92 4th :33
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
AND THAT'S GAME!
May or may not watch next game..this was hard to watch
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
there are no more next games in this round
next game is the Knockout game, a must watch
Well..
I’m not certain a game against Angola is exactly a must watch, lol but I’m sure i’ll be there! Keep up the good work IQ!
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
oh, i see what you mean
thanks! I’ll be there
Wow on Group C's standings
Ivory Coast beating Puerto Rico means both Ivory Coast and Puerto Rico are eliminated, and China sneaks in to #4 with only 1 win
China will take it!
Some lucky stuff right there
We'll miss you Frown-Face Randolph. "You came, you cried, you almost conquerred."
Standings craziness
If China loses today, China, Ivory Coast, and Puerto Rico are all tied at 1-4. Based on the result of head to head games, China wins the tie breaker over Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast wins the tie breaker over Puerto Rico, Puerto wins the tie breaker over China.
So the tie breaker goes to “goal difference” between head to head games. I don’t feel like working out the math there, so I’m giving up on this analysis.
Sorry, not goal difference
“goal average”, whatever that is
Update
I found the broadcast time and channel for the live and replay of the Angola game. I’ve updated the table in the story.
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